BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie

expressions, eye movements etc. Humans send and interpret such signals.
When a person sends a message with conflicting verbal and nonverbal
information, the nonverbal information tends to be believed. Consider the
example of someone, through a clenched jaw, hard eyes, and steely voice,
telling you they're not mad. Which are you likely to believe? What you see
or what you hear?
Argyle (1988) concluded there are five primary functions of
nonverbal bodily behavior in human communication:
Express emotions;
Express interpersonal attitudes;
To accompany speech in managing the cues of interaction
between speakers and listeners;
Self-presentation of one’s personality;
Rituals (greetings).
The Facial Expression
The face is perhaps the most important conveyor of emotional
information. A face can light up with enthusiasm, energy, and approval,
express confusion or boredom, and scowl with displeasure. The facial
expession includes:
a) mimics, knit brows (frawn), wrinkle up forehead, corrugate
nose, clench teeth etc.
b) smile, that can be recepted from delight to cinism.
c) the look, it can communicate love, frendship, sadness, guilty,
indiference, hate.
While some say that facial expressions are identical, meaning
attached to them differs. Majority opinion is that these do have similar
meanings world-wide with respect to smiling, crying, or showing anger,
sorrow, or disgust. However, the intensity varies from culture to culture.
Note the following:
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